Re: Franco-Provençal

On 2009-02-19 22:59, Petr Hrubis wrote:

> I understand Polish quite well. There's an interesting dialect near my
> hometown which renders standard Czech /st/ and /st^/ as /s^c^/.
> Together with the typical penultimate stress, it sounds much like
> Polish to the Czech ear. The problem is that there have been
> transitional dialects between Czech and Polish, Czech and Slovak and
> Slovak and Polish.
>
> Piotr, what's your opinion concerning these issues?

Same as yours. The level of mutual intelligibility is quite high inside
West Slavic, transitional dialects have been common and some of them
still exist. The Tatra highlanders on the Polish side of the border use
initial stress, and some conservative accents of the area have a trilled
fricative for Polish <rz>. In Silesia we have a dialect continuum with
Polish and Czech influence meeting in what is now increasingly regarded
as a separate Silesian language (with its own Wikipedia, even if it has
no army or navy to back it up):

http://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Al%C5%AFnsko_godka

Piotr